Danish Resistance

The Danish Resistance was a World War II resistance movement that was active in Denmark from 1940 to 1945. The resistance movement developed slowly, as Nazi Germany was fairly lenient on the people of Denmark during its occupation of the country. However, the movement had grown by 1943, with many Danes producing illegal publications, hanging anti-Nazi posters, spying, and being involved in sabotage, and many of the resistance members were communists. The resistance had killed 400 Danish Nazis, informers, and collaborators by 1944, and the Danish police was at times accused of collaborating with the resistance against the Wehrmacht. The resistance was also successful with helping the Rescue of the Danish Jews in 1943; 99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust.